Payload
MOLNIYA 3-28
DecayedPayloadLEO
MOLNIYA 3-28 is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on April 18, 1986 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 18, 1986 at 07:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Molniya-3 43L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 905 km
- Periapsis
- 76 km
- Inclination
- 61.45°
- Orbital period
- 94.43 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,750 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 16683
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 15.0717 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 25, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 25, 1999
- Time in service
- 12.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed